Archive for ‘Crows Ravins’

More and more I've been getting unhappified by the march of robotics and mechanization. Not for the improvement in product quality control; that's an obvious benefit. But where a robot is now, a human once was. And we now have factories turning out literally millions of motors, actuators, other robots, and so forth, with a […]

Click on the awesome fossile picture and you'll go to the abstract for the paper "A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies". The abstract is not immediately clear to non-paleontologists so I thought I'd offer a handy dandy translation. It says that Canadian paleontologists have found a huge […]

This is so cool because it illustrates a point of … science! (Which I'm an unapologetic fan of). First: What it is. It's a recording of crickets played at normal speed and then at a super slowed pace. You'll be pretty fascinated with what the slowed crickets sound like. The point is that we, as […]